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Rodgers is not happy with the suggestion that Liverpool rely too heavily on SuarezTimes Newspapers Ltd

Tony Barrett

Last updated at 4:28PM, March 28 2014

Brendan Rodgers has accused Gustavo Poyet of disrespect after the Sunderland
manager claimed title-chasing Liverpool would be mid-table were it not for
the goalscoring brilliance of Luis Suárez.

Poyet made the comments ahead of Sunderland’s
2-1 defeat to Liverpool on Wednesday night – a game in which,
incidentally, Suárez failed to score – and they prompted a belated but
pointed response by Rodgers.

“Someone said that if we didn’t have Luis Suárez’s goals we would be mid-table
which was probably quite disrespectful to the other players because at
various times in my time here we have had Luis out and won games,

Liverpool return to the scene of their biggest Premier League defeat this weekend with Jordan Henderson, their new club captain, insistent that they should relish their latest visit to the Britannia Stadium rather than be intimidated by it